A study exploring Natalie Portman’s role in Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan and Céline Sciamma’s film Girlhood is a fascinating addition to the discipline’s output, argues Davina Quinlivan
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Book of the week: An intellectual property battle over two dolls puts the focus on market competition, Laura Frost finds
Those who cross distant disciplinary boundaries are seen as unusual and viewed with suspicion. A handful of scholars tell Matthew Reisz why it suits them to stray
John Morgan travels to the University of California, Berkeley, a key battleground in the campus culture wars, to assess the mood towards US higher education and the threats that it faces
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Cabinet reshuffle offers universities the chance of a relationship reset before they are likely caught in the first swell of a global wave of funding reviews
Jonathan Rosenhead points out the double standard involved when a government responsible for the counter-terrorism Prevent strategy and apparently for tacitly supporting the closing-down of...
I am flattered to be the target of a letter from Roger Brown (again). But he exaggerates the differences between us. For example, we share a concern about the dangers of excessive homogeneity in...
We write as senior academics to express our concern about the proposal from Universities UK to end guaranteed pension payments in the Universities Superannuation Scheme (“UUK reforms ‘will cut USS...
Pakistani journals lack the professionalism and expertise to support a thriving knowledge economy, say Abdur Rehman Cheema and Mehvish Riaz